Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Qingjiangpu.
In the end an opening was found for him as stand-in for a colleague on furlough in Zhenjiang, the city he had left a decade earlier to open up Tsingkiangpu and its hinterland.
2010, Hilary Spurling, Burying the Bones, Profile Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 222 more examples
On the return, he left the canal eighty-five miles below Tsingkiangpu, and to the astonishment and alarm of country folk, he roared and bumped home along the Imperial Highway, narrow and rough, easily beating the record for a journey between Shanghai and Tsingkiangpu.
1971, John C. Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, Minneapolis, Minn.: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44The upper four-fifths of the Jiangsu Province was almost untouched by the Gospel with less than 100 Chinese believers among, perhaps, 30 million people. Eventually the Grahams moved to Tsingkiangpu, a town in northeastern Jiangsu with a population of approximately 130,000 (in modern China the city of Tsingkiangpu is renamed Huaiyin).
2006, Stephen Fortosis, Boxers to Bandits, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 25
Origin
- Mandarin清江浦
- EnglishTsingkiangpu
From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 清江浦 (Qīngjiāngpǔ), from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].
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